James Cameron's Avatar Blockbuster-o-logy

[ralfy]

Same with others who won't walk away from the likes of Barbie, etc., but they can and sometimes do.

[Nightmare Asylum]

James Cameron created Avatar as a fertile playground in which he can explore all of the ideas he wants to explore right now and get them on screen, and he has had resounding success in doing so – clearly audiences are eating these movies up.

I'd be hard pressed to imagine him throwing all of that away to return to a series that he didn't create and hasn't been involved with since 1986, and I'd be equally hard pressed to imagine that anyone that isn't into James Cameron's contemporary work would even be fond of what he'd likely do with a new Alien film nowadays anyways.

[ralfy]

That's why the new movie is better than the previous one. /s

[Nightmare Asylum]

Yeah it's really bad. /s

[Nightmare Asylum]

https://twitter.com/comingsoonnet/status/1732439512431673674

[irn]

That's good news. Having the future third highest grossing film in history being called The Seed Bearer might be too much.

[ralfy]

Slangwise, "bad" means "good". Meanwhile, in terms of revenues, it's like McDonaldization.

[Nightmare Asylum]

'Avatar 3' Has 'Greater Character Depth' and 'Avatar 4' Has a Six-Year Time Jump, Reveals James Cameron: Filming Continues 'After Three Is Released'

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/avatar-4-time-jump-james-cameron-shot-half-film-1235835128/

Shot in the dark here, but it's just a gut feeling I've had for a while in regards to the sequels and these comments from Jimbo seem to solidify it in my mind: I bet Jake dies in the third one, and the opening of the fourth deals with some of the immediate fallout/ramifications of that before jumping (which we now know will be a six year jump) far enough into the future to further plant the children (young adults by that point, really) firmly as the leads for the last two installments.

[Immortan Jonesy]

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1736481429750755456

[BlueMarsalis79]

It's about f**king time.

[Nightmare Asylum]

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1744737528190796057

[Immortan Jonesy]

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1744737528190796057

I honestly liked the last movie quite a lot. Can't wait for part three.

[Immortan Jonesy]

https://twitter.com/Collider/status/1752846224426680445

[Nightmare Asylum]

"We're fully written through movie five, and I've got ideas for six and seven, although I'll probably be handing the baton on at that point. I mean, mortality catches up. But I mean, we're enjoying what we're doing. We're loving it. We get to work with great people."

https://collider.com/james-cameron-avatar-6-7-ideas/

[Nightmare Asylum]

Lyle hive rise up.